my favorite albums of all time: a poll

Interesting list, could've gone for 5 or 6, went with Prefab Sprout, never get tired of that album, such wonderful drama and romanticism to it all.

Any reason there's so few from the 21st century? Granted, those of us past a certain age will lean towards 20th century choices...

hi, Brad

alexander o'neal: hearsay (1987)

omigod

Any reason there's so few from the 21st century? Granted, those of us past a certain age will lean towards 20th century choices...

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, May 10, 2019 1:46 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't really know! this is just kinda how it shook out. one record i could've included is portishead's third

It's a very '80s heavy list. I suppose if I was arsed about compiling such a list, mine would be '80s heavy too, but it sure as hell wouldn't look like this.

I looked deep into my heart and voted Speak No Evil

ok, so which ones of these do i know well

dolphy, prince, bush, miles, vu, sprinkles, sly, bowie, mitchell, walker... i've only heard the levan padlock mixes... green, talk talk, can.

anybody who knows my posting history: which three should i listen to from the ones i haven't listed?

by the way of these, my gut today is either joni mitchell or al green

Al Green, first and always.

Not really imo, moaning about the hive mind is pure ILM but to quuote one glaring example Kind of Blue is not the hive mind Miles album

You're right of course, but this is as close as we'll get to a single individual embodying the hivemind. For now.

if i were not born they would have to invent me

You are one avatar of many.

Rapture!

Brad, get out of my phone.

this is impossible as so many of these albums are also my favourite ones. between the blue nile, fleetwood mac, sade, janet jackson, prefab sprout, talk talk, can, smashing pumpkins and dj sprinkles i can't really choose right now.
i was kinda expecting to find hole's celebrity skin. my vote would so much easier.

What you should probably do is make a playlist of the best tracks from these and post it here. Then I could switch off the internet and be happy for ever more.

Fwiw, I think it's probably Bill Evans.

how was this list compiled - was it just on the spot?

a lot of things i haven't heard, so that is good, and i will try to hear some

write-in for blood inside obv

I picked Jordan: The Comeback.

I thoroughly enjoy this list, am looking forward to checking out the records I haven't heard, and more ILM-ers should do this, please and thank you :)

I checked out the DJ Sprinkles album last night on a whim. Exactly what I needed.

how was this list compiled - was it just on the spot?

i’ve been keeping a running list on rym for almost a decade bc i got tired of forgetting what my favorite albums were

i am completely digging the other people place rn. randomly voted in a special way - one of the numerous amazing records on the list

Great list, several overlaps with mine if I did one. However, 'The Blue Mask'? Weirdly I listened to this last week for the first time and find it difficult to see how this would be placed above 'Transformer' or 'Berlin' or even 'New York'.

It's a better album. New Sensations even more.

Berlin is one of his poorer records too, getting by on its "darkness"

Each to his own.

A little darkness goes a long way.

i love berlin but the mood of the blue mask is more my style: at first ghostly and inviting then straight up haunted and scared

also: my favorite lou reed backing band no contest (i also love new sensations)

(despite the absence of quine)*

Lou shouting about SYYYYLLLVIIIIAAAAAA is scarier than anything on Berlin.

coney island baby is in the deeper reaches of this list, as are ecstasy and lulu

transformer's a great record that i've known and loved since high school but if i want high glam reed most of the time i end up listening to rock n roll animal instead

hats i think but lots of my favs on here

brad nelson is up to his tricks again

their tricks

It took Ezra Furman's recent 33 1/3 on Transformer to give it the spin I haven't in almost twenty years.

i do want to read that book

thanks j. <3

I feel like this list proves that Brad is the ur- and/or über-ILMer.

― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:35 (yesterday) Permalink

no loveless though!

or britney

too hard to vote!

surprised Imagination didn't make the cut

wait till my list

<3

Gotta go with Rapture, though only Sleep No More fueled my high school poetry.

the blue nile: hats (1989)

Thanks for the sophie’s choice between Pirates and Veedon Fleece, two of my all time faves. In the end it’s Van.

Berlin is one of his poorer records too, getting by on its "darkness"

― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

it's one of bob ezrin's better records imo

gotta go with Otis here

voted for fleetwood mac's tusk but any of these are also on my list:

the blue nile: hats (1989)
kate bush: hounds of love (1985)
janet jackson: the velvet rope (1997)
dj sprinkles: midtown 120 blues (2008)
the smashing pumpkins: adore (1998)
talk talk: laughing stock (1991)
can: tago mago (1971)
sade: love deluxe (1992)
madonna: erotica (1992)

such a brilliant list, such an impossible task, but...i was quite happy w/ seeing 'no other' in there, which i've been championing for years, so i'm giving that a vote.

and, 'dance of december souls' over 'brave murder day'?

Speaking of which, I happily discovered Sprinkles through this poll so thanks, Brad!

folie a quatre

al green: i'm still in love with you (1972)
0 votes
marvin gaye: here, my dear (1978)
0 votes
anita baker: rapture (1986)
0 votes

This makes me sad.

rapture shutout is the biggest surprise there

the thing about hats and the blue nile in general. it is nice late night background music - though the strings suck big time as usual - but there is zero spirituality in that music compared to laughing stock. additionally the vu self titled which covers similar ground as hats in terms of relaxed atmosphere is so much more intimate and immediate. hats is a string syrup covered with a voice coating that does not speak to me. so what is the point?

only vaguely even aware of Blue Nile but listening now and kinda dig it.
lol @ it doesn't speak to me so what's the point